Gray Favored by Networks for Hurricane Forecasts, Cast Out of Global W

Julia A. Seymour
 

The 'Consumer Group' That Doesn't Want You to Consume

BMI Staff
 

Montel Williams Ditches Soldier Who Wouldn't Complain About Treatment

See Updates Below In the post-Walter Reed world, the MSM is on the prowl for stories that fit the template -- troops suffering at the hands of an indifferent military health bureaucracy. Yesterday's episode of the Montel Williams show demonstrates what happens when a soldier doesn't stick to the victimization script.Have a look at this article from the Grand Junction [Colo.] Sentinel, which…
Mark Finkelstein
 

Bozell Column: NPR Tackles Tancredo

Brent Bozell
 

NYT Silent on Party Affiliations of NJ Scandal

Eric Arr
 

NYT: 'American Idol' Popular Because of 2000 Election

Just when you thought the New York Times couldn't sink any lower than its chairman Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger ranting how he was sorry America wasn't a socialist and pacifist nation, the money-losing paper manages to surprise you.That's really the only thing you can say after reading Times Arts tv critic Alessandra Stanley's attempt to cast the popular-but-fading Fox show "American Idol" into…
Matthew Sheffield
 

NBC Soap Opera, Web Site Pushing 'Green Wedding

Ken Shepherd
 

Networks Respect 'America's Best-Known Forecaster,' Except When He Tal

Networks rush to cover Dr. Bill Gray's hurricane predictions, but leave out the fact that he thinks the world might cool again soon.
Dan Gainor
 

Will 'American Morning' Anchors Be Less Biased

Lynn Davidson
 

Open Thread

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NB Staff
 

Leonardo DiCaprio: Humans Have Had a Devastating Impact on our Planet

Vanity Fair has just released its second annual “Green Issue.” This year, actor Leonardo DiCaprio was prominently placed on the cover -- captured by famed photographer Annie Leibovitz no less -- standing at the Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon in southeast Iceland perfectly looking the part as Hollywood's foremost concerned environmentalist.In the featured piece, DiCaprio was labeled “The Man of the…
Noel Sheppard
 

Record Fund-raising Despite McCain-Feingold's Promise to 'Clean Up Pol

The DC Examiner has a great editorial this morning reminding everyone of the dramatic failure that McCain-Feingold has been. Not only has it failed to remove the "corrupting" influence of money in elections, it's needlessly promoted censorship:Well, so much for “getting rid of the corrupting influence of money on politics” — the basic aim of the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act of 2002,…
Matthew Sheffield
 

CNN Anchors Dumped, Rosie Looking to Ditch 'View' for Syndicated Riche

Tim Graham
 

Boston Globe: Call for Gore to Run for President 'Heats Up

Talk about making a mountain out of a mole hill. The Boston Globe reports on the "push" to draft Al Gore to run for president in 2008 in the April 4th edition of the paper. The story's starry-eyed subjects launching Gore for president websites and sponsoring web petitions are in for the best fluff treatment lending their claims of a "surge" in support for a Gore candidacy far more legitimacy than…
Warner Todd Huston